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Trouble Must Come

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Parent Issue
Day
29
Month
October
Year
1896
Copyright
Public Domain
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Constantinople, Oct 25, via Sofia, 1 Bulgaria, Oct. 26.- The report that 1 trouble of a serious nature is brewing here has so often been sent out that . any fresh anouncement to that effect i ia looked upon ae havlng little or no I foundation in Xact But, in apite of this it is but right to state onc more i that everything pointe to further end : more serfaus trouble preparing oa all eidea throughout tha Tirkisli empire. The ball was set rolling Wednesday i last when the sultan signed two irades, whlch were iaeued the next day, levying a poll tax oí 5 piastree per head on all Mussulmana and increasing the taxes omsheep, public ■works and ediuoaUon by 1 to VA per cent, tlie íunds so raised to be devoted to military purposes. Thla caused thO representaUves of the powens to eend a collective nota to the porte couched In the strongest language, calling attention to the damger that the arming of tie Mussulmana was certain to créate and pointing out generally the critical Bituation of affairs in the Turklsh empire. But terg purchases o tarma have elready been made and the danger increases hourly. The porte sent a repl yto the oollective note of the ambasaadors. As uual, however, tó wa an evasive answer, and in subsUnoe simply stated that tne money derlved from the addttlonal taxes was oaly intended to complete the armament of 'the musUMuz or landstrum, the third and test class of the Turklsh anny reserves, and to Btrengthen the armament of the other land forces of the sultan, which consist of the Nizam, or regular army, and iU active reserve, the redlf, or landwehr. Conscripts tn Turkey serve six years in the nizam, four with the colora and two In the reserve; they thsen serve eight years in the r edif, four in the flrst clasa and four in the secoad. Then they complet their twenty years' service by servlng six years in the mustahfuz. In completing the armament of the The action of the Turkish government in completing the armament ot the mustahfuz indicates that the empire is faclng stsituation which may necessitate calling forth all the military forces at lts disposal and it also indicates that tie situation is the graveat since the Russo-Turkish war. Under these circumstances tt is but natural that considerable uneasiness prevaile. Of cour there is always in view the probabMty, at least, that the sultan, by these movements, is simpiy seeiuiis to distraot the attention of liis subjects f rom the actual state of affaire brought abotu by his mal-administration, and that seelng that the powers are really earnest and that an uoderstanding bebetween Russla, France and Greai Britain means decislve action, he is by these armamento practfccally threatenIng a wholesale massacre L ne Chrlattaus, and announclng that Turkey wlll reelat to the utmost any attempt at armed coerción. Happily there Is one feature of the crisis which has a sooOüng inöuence upon Abdul Hamid. Thls is tihe financia! situaüon. It Ib about as 'liad aslt posslbly can be. AU negotiations upon the part of the Turklsh government for a tetnporary loan hare failed and tbe condition of the treasury is ome of utter helplessneea. On top of thls the prlce of bread has risen 40 per;ceot and blds fair to rlse atill hitfier astUie prlce of wheat goes up. Tais b&a decidedly aggravated the prevalling üfstresa and lts consequent dlscontent. Tha pollco continue moklng arresto and it Is undrstod that many morefbomba have been found. In Armenia the greatest apprenenston exiato. Th echoes of the recent mMsacre In Une city of Bgin are }ust reaching her, 1& eiolte of th efforto made by the porte t suppresa everything but tbe offlolal neuws.

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